arXiv:hep-ph/9811298·v1·High Energy Physics — Phenomenology
High Temperature Symmetry Breaking, SUSY Flat Directions, and the Monopole Problem
Gia Dvali (1)🇺🇸 · Lawrence M. Krauss (2) ((1) New York University and ICTP, (2) Case Western Reserve University)🇺🇸
Abstract
Supersymmetric flat directions allow a generic counterexample to the phenomenon of symmetry restoration at high temperatures. We show that (exponentially) large VEVs can be developed along these directions through temperature-induced `dimensional transmutation'. A minimum with broken gauge charges (e.g. electric charge) can exist at arbitrarily high temperatures. In such a scenario magnetic monopoles are never formed, independent of whether inflation occurs before or after the GUT phase transition, or whether it occurs at all.
Comments: 4 pages, prl revtex